The Axe of Ganesha is Spectres latest foray into weapon-shaped coins, and it's an extravagant one When you have lots of arms, you get to carry a lot of stuff, and that applies perfectly to the Hindu deity, Ganesha. The elephant-headed god is one of the most beloved in the Hindu pantheon, and known for his four [...]
Silver Pours goes fully dimensional with its cast silver anti-tank gun coin issued for Ghana We've already covered a wide range of cast silver weapons of various types over the last year or two, and their popularity shows little sign of slowing down. While most releases tend to focus on bladed weapons, there are an increasing number [...]
Footballs, anchors, and a phoenix-adorned blade. It can only be Coins Today's latest batch of silver coins and miniatures Coins Today have been busy of late, and there have been a couple we haven't covered as I try to keep things a little more varied here (not always successfully, I admit), but the latest batch is [...]
Numiscollect brings Christ the Redeemer, one of the New 7 Wonders, to silver with a dimensional coin In 2001, a campaign got underway with the aim of choosing the New 7 Wonders of the World, inspired by the ancient version that included such incredible structures as the pyramids in Giza. It was all unofficial, and not [...]
Hermes Winged Staff is the third of Coins Today's 'Divine Weapons' and the Twinfang Daggers join them Coins Today are back with another new pair of silver items, and as you'd expect from this South Korean producer, they're both a long way from being standard rounds. One is a novelty item, with a military leaning, [...]
A classic car is the latest cast silver miniature to join Coin's Todays portfolio We weren't sure whether to cover this release, which, as a cast silver miniature, is pushing the boundaries of what we usually write about, but with the increasing popularity of cast weapons, and some statues linked to coin franchises, I thought it [...]
King Arthur's legendary blade, the sword Excalibur, launches MK's new 'Melee Weapons' series of dimensional silver coins We seem to be having a bit of a dimensional weapons day today, and after a Quicklook at Coins Today's latest offering earlier today, here we're with Mint of MK's new addition. Just a few weeks ago, they [...]
Back in January, we reported on the debut of a new series of miniatures from Coin's Today called 'Divine Weapons' the first of which was the Thunderbolt of Zeus. This was a limited antiqued miniature, with some quite extensive gilded highlighting. Now, the South Korean producer has launched the more common antiqued variant, We won't go into too [...]
Odin's legendary spear, Gungnir, is the latest mythological weapon of war to get the silver miniature treatment One of the richest, and most beloved of the ancient mythologies, is that of the Norse peoples. The pantheon of deities is both expansive, and full of fascinating characters, all under the watchful eye of Odin, the leader of [...]
Mythical Creatures, Coins Today's shaped silver series, continues with the three-headed fido, Cerberus The shaped two-ounce silver range, Mythical Beast's, continues with the addition of a third release in the series. Cerberus, the three-headed dog with a serpents tail, that in Greek mythology, guarded the entrance to the underworld to prevent the dead from leaving. Also [...]
